The People’s Democratic Party PDP, the main opposition party in Nigeria has inaugurated a 37-member committee on zoning.
Inaugurating the committee in Abuja, the National Chairman of the
Party, Dr Iyorchia Ayu said that it was a tradition in the Party to discuss every issue including fair distribution of offices.
“Before we came into office, all of you our leaders put heads together and ensured that we distributed party offices fairly across the country. We want to thank you for what you did. Our party came out stronger, because you are fair and you did a very transparent job”, Ayu said.
“It is our turn now to request you as the National working committee acting on behalf of NEC to formally inaugurate this committee made up of the names that have been mentioned.
“You will recall that in the NEC meeting, discussions we had no rancour whatsoever. To the extent that one of our governors stood up and said, sensitive as the issue may be he’s so pleased and so happy that the PDP families discuss the issue without any bitterness. I implore all of you to continue in the same spirit, PDP has a reputation of discussing whatever issues that we have,” he added.
He urged members of the committee to discuss the matter with the same spirit that they discussed at the National Executive Committee, NEC.
“So there should be no rancour whatsoever; remain focused on the bigger picture because that is what we want. I believe by the time we have the big prize in our hands, we will share it, we will rotate it the way we want. If we had not been interrupted on this journey about six years ago, we have started the same process,” he advised
Ayu said the PDP had a history of rotating the offices and anybody who did not get it this time should wait after the tenure whoever would be the president.
All the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory are represented in the committee.
Nneka Ukachukwu
